This section covers potential issues you may experience in the
installation, management, and general day-to-day operations of
your Red Hat Virtualization system(s). This troubleshooting
section covers the error messages, log file locations, system
tools, and general approaches to research data and analyze
problems.
19.1. Logfile Overview and Locations
When deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 with
Virtualization into your network infrastructure, the
host's Virtualization software uses many specific directories for
important configuragtion, log files, and other utilities. All the Red Hat
Virtualization logs files are standard ASCII files, and easily
accessable with any ASCII based editor:
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The Red Hat Virtualization main configuration directory is
/etc/xen/. This directory contains the xend daemon
and other virtual machine configuration files. The networking script files reside here as well (in the
/scripts subdirectory).
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All of actual log files themselves that you will consult for troubleshooting purposes reside in the /var/log/xen directory.
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You should also know that the default directory for all
virtual machine file-based disk images reside in the
/var/lib/xen directory.
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Red Hat Virtualization information for the /proc file
system reside in the /proc/xen/ directory.
